The Sea Song

The original Russian text is the infamous poem of Anna Akhmatova. English translation, orchestration and performance are, as usually, by the author. However, this time the author is also the composer of the music. The text of the original Russian poem and its English translation are below. The full text can be found in the author's book "Favorite Translations". The song itself is included in the author's CD- "The Poetry of Anna Akhmatova. The Music of Pauline Viardot"


For weeks didn't I drop a word,
Only sat on a stone at stormy sea's shore.
I enjoyed that crowns of wavs, white as a chalk,
Are, as my tears are, full of salt.
There were winters and springs,
But one spring still in my memory rings.
Nights were getting warmer, and snow got melted
I went out once to look at the moon.
Then a strange fellow nearby unexpectedly said,
Keeping up with my lonely, sad tune,
«Are not you the one, whom I've been looking for
Since my childhood many years ago,
Whom I always love like a sister or more?»
But I angrily answered the stranger: No!

And he told me also the four features of land,
Where we would meet each other again:
«Steeple sea shores, a round bay,
Tall lighthouse, mandatory wormwood.

As the life should end the way, it had been at first day.»
And I then agree with him that it, of course, should!


По неделе ни слова ни с кем ни скажу,
Всё на камне у моря сижу,
И мне любо, что брызги солённой волны,
Словно слёзы мои, солоны.
Были вёсны м зимы, да что-то одна
Мне запомнилась только весна.
Стали ночи теплее, подтаивап снег,
Вышла я поглядеть на луну,
И спросил меня тихо чужой человек,
Между сосенок встретив одну:
« Ты не та ли, кого я повсюду ищу,
О которой с младенческих лет,
Как о милой сестре, веселюсь и грущу?»
Я чужому ответила: «Нет!»

И назвал мне четыре приметы страны,
Где мы встретиться снова должны:
Море, круглая бухта, высокий маяк,
А всего непременней полынь..

И как жизнь началась, пусть и кончится так.
Я сказала, что знаю: аминь!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• sea shore
• mandatory wormwood
• round bay
• tune
• melted snow
• Anna Akhmatova
• Anna Epelbaum

[Nushika9]

@BeautifulGirlByDana Thank you. I am having a kind of boycott in my local community. Why is so - impossible to understand, but , as the result, I can't present my stuff on local radio station, local festivals, local stores (books and CDs). And even the local public library, which manages to buy my books, does not want to officially recognize me, as local writer and/or singer. I am telling you all of this to explain why I am so grumpy, sometimes unreasonably so. Thanks again. Nushika9

[BeautifulGirlByDana]

@Nushika9 the comment i left is just to let people know i dropped by , i use a 5/5 rating system . i sub a lot of people because i feel like it , if they have something unique going on , i,m a partner on you tube and i try to support people , and besides that is what you tube is all about , meeting people , seeing different cultures and talent , i,m just a you tuber who seeks out music and try to keep track of who i seen before , my site is all about helping people

[Nushika9]

@BeautifulGirlByDana I subscribed to your channel. Why not? I, however, still do not understand why you subscribed to mine. Neither you, not a lot of channels and people, which and who come with this subscription, have expressed by now opinions or even presence on my channel. What was you reason for this subscription, considering that your only comment was very strange also, is fully unclear.

[Nushika9]

What do you mean? It is one of my songs from CD, which is mentioned in description. It is completely mine, except of the fact that the lyrics if the translation, not the original poem of mine.

[BeautifulGirlByDana]

The Sea Song  5/5 ★s